In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
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1. The virtue which consists in giving to every one what is his due; practical conformity to the laws and to principles of rectitude in the dealings of men with each other; honesty; integrity in commerce or mutual intercourse. Justice is distributive or commutative. Distributive justice belongs to magistrates or rulers, and consists in distributing to every man that right or equity which the laws and the principles of equity require; or in deciding controversies according to the laws and to principles of equity. Commutative justice consists in fair dealing in trade and mutual intercourse between man and man.

2. Impartiality; equal distribution of right in expressing opinions; fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit. In criticisms, narrations, history or discourse, it is a duty to do justice to every man, whether friend or foe.

3. Equity; agreeableness to right; as, he proved the justice of his claim. This should, in strictness, be justness.

6. [Low L. justiciarius.] A person commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice to individuals; as the Chief Justice of the king's bench, or of the common pleas, in England; the Chief Justice of the supreme court in the United States, &c. and justices of the peace.

JUST'ICE, v.t. To administer justice. [Little used.]

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JUST'ICE, n. [L. justitia, from justus, just.]

1. The virtue which consists in giving to every one what is his due; practical conformity to the laws and to principles of rectitude in the dealings of men with each other; honesty; integrity in commerce or mutual intercourse. Justice is distributive or commutative. Distributive justice belongs to magistrates or rulers, and consists in distributing to every man that right or equity which the laws and the principles of equity require; or in deciding controversies according to the laws and to principles of equity. Commutative justice consists in fair dealing in trade and mutual intercourse between man and man.

2. Impartiality; equal distribution of right in expressing opinions; fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit. In criticisms, narrations, history or discourse, it is a duty to do justice to every man, whether friend or foe.

3. Equity; agreeableness to right; as, he proved the justice of his claim. This should, in strictness, be justness.

6. [Low L. justiciarius.] A person commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice to individuals; as the Chief Justice of the king's bench, or of the common pleas, in England; the Chief Justice of the supreme court in the United States, &c. and justices of the peace.

The virtue which consists in giving to every one what is his due; practical conformity to the laws und to principles of rectitude in the dealings of men with each other; honesty; integrity in commerce or mutual intercourse. Justice is distributive or commutative. Distributive justice belongs to magistrates or rulers, and consists in distributing to every man that right or equity which the laws and the principles of equity require; or in deciding controversies
according to the laws and to principles of equity. Commutative justice consists in fair dealing in trade and mutual intercourse between man and man.

Impartiality; equal distribution of right in expressing opinions; fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit. In criticisms, narrations, history or discourse, it is a duty to do justice to every man, whether friend or foe.

Equity; agreeableness to right; as, he proved the justice of his claim. This should, in strictness, be justness.

[Low L. justiciarius.] A person commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice to individuals; its, the Chief Justice of the king's bench, or of the common pleas, in England; the Chief Justice of the supreme court in the United States, &c., and justices of the peace.

JUST'ICE, v.t.

To administer justice. [Little used.] – Bacon.

Jus"tice

The quality of being just; conformity to
the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict
performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or
divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other;
rectitude; equity; uprightness.

Justice and judgment are the haditation of thy
throne. Ps. ixxxix. 11.

The king-becoming graces,
As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, . . .
I have no relish of them. Shak.

To administer
justice to.

[Obs.] Bacon.

Conformity to truth and reality in
expressing opinions and in conduct; fair representation of facts
respecting merit or demerit; honesty; fidelity; impartiality; as, the
justice of a description or of a judgment; historical
justice.

The rendering to every one his due or
right; just treatment; requital of desert; merited reward or
punishment; that which is due to one's conduct or motives.

This even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips. Shak.

Agreeableness to right; equity; justness;
as, the justice of a claim.

A person duly commissioned to hold courts,
or to try and decide controversies and administer justice.

* This title is given to the judges of the common law courts
in England and in the United States, and extends to judicial officers
and magistrates of every grade.

Bed of justice. See under Bed. -
- Chief justice. See in the Vocabulary. --
Justice of the peace(Law), a judicial
officer or subordinate magistrate appointed for the conservation of
the peace in a specified district, with other incidental powers
specified in his commission. In the United States a justice of the
peace has jurisdiction to adjudicate certain minor cases, commit
offenders, etc.

Syn. -- Equity; law; right; rectitude; honesty; integrity;
uprightness; fairness; impartiality. -- Justice,
Equity, Law. Justice and equity are the
same; but human laws, though designed to secure justice, are of
necessity imperfect, and hence what is strictly legal is at
times far from being equitable or just. Here a court of
equity comes in to redress the grievances. It does so, as
distinguished from courts of law; and as the latter are often
styled courts of justice, some have fancied that there is in
this case a conflict between justice and equity. The
real conflict is against the working of the law; this a
court of equity brings into accordance with the claims of
justice. It would be an unfortunate use of language which
should lead any one to imagine he might have justice on his
side while practicing iniquity (inequity).

Justice, Rectitude. Rectitude, in its
widest sense, is one of the most comprehensive words in our language,
denoting absolute conformity to the rule of right in principle and
practice. Justice refers more especially to the carrying out
of law, and has been considered by moralists as of three kinds: (1)
Commutative justice, which gives every man his own property,
including things pledged by promise. (2) Distributive justice,
which gives every man his exact deserts. (3) General justice,
which carries out all the ends of law, though not in every
case through the precise channels of commutative or distributive
justice; as we see often done by a parent or a ruler in his dealings
with those who are subject to his control.

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JUST'ICE, noun [Latin justitia, from justus, just.]

1. The virtue which consists in giving to every one what is his due; practical conformity to the laws and to principles of rectitude in the dealings of men with each other; honesty; integrity in commerce or mutual intercourse. justice is distributive or commutative. Distributive justice belongs to magistrates or rulers, and consists in distributing to every man that right or equity which the laws and the principles of equity require; or in deciding controversies according to the laws and to principles of equity. Commutative justice consists in fair dealing in trade and mutual intercourse between man and man.

2. Impartiality; equal distribution of right in expressing opinions; fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit. In criticisms, narrations, history or discourse, it is a duty to do justice to every man, whether friend or foe.

3. Equity; agreeableness to right; as, he proved the justice of his claim. This should, in strictness, be justness.

6. [Low Latin justiciarius.] A person commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice to individuals; as the Chief justice of the king's bench, or of the common pleas, in England; the Chief justice of the supreme court in the United States, etc. and justices of the peace.

JUST'ICE, verb transitive To administer justice [Little used.]

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